You're walking down the street and a legless man on a skateboard zooms by. Your first reaction--shock? disgust? pity? Welcome to Kevin Michael Connolly 's world. Author of the recent memoir Double Take , Connolly was born without legs. Instead...

Looking for something entertaining and informative to read? These nonfiction titles might be just the thing. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope tells how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from...

The Ripest Moments is a simple pleasure to read. While reading this memoir of growing up in the 40s and 50s in Jasper and rural Dubois County, Indiana, I found myself reminded over and over again of my own childhood in northern Indiana, and the cousins...

Yes, that's the subtitle of the book I just finished. Wesley the Owl is a must for anyone who has ever been in love with an animal. The story is written by Stacey O'Brien, who was a lab assistant at Cal Tech when she adopted a 4-day-old barn owl...

Why review a 38 year old book? When I spotted this book, I remembered the name Harry Caudill because of his book Night Comes to the Cumberland s . I read that book after reading a chapter about Harry Caudill in a book of essays by Wendell Berry called...

Wow! That was what I was saying most of the way through Douglas Preston's bestselling book . To think I wandered around Florence in the dark four years ago without ever knowing of these crimes. It gives me goose-bumps. If you didn't pick it up...

Looking for a way to maintain your super-fab lifestyle without ruining the planet? Then pick up The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green by Starre Vartan. This tiny book is packed with information on 'greening' your life in every...

This book's preface begins, " These are the faces of illness in America. Do not look away.......Quite simply, they are us. " If you have ever known someone with a chronic or terminal illness, you probably already know that each person approaches...

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when gasoline prices rose from under eighty cents to the staggering price of $1.40 a gallon, the United States government implemented measures to reduce oil imports and improve energy efficiency. Flash forward twenty...

Reading, Writing, and Growing Together in Southwestern Indiana This year's One Book One Community title is This I Believe: the Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. This collection of essays from the 1950s and today is based on the National...

Staff at Central Library are currently sharing some of their favorite picks on a book display in the lobby through October 19. These titles are going fast and many have already snatched them off the shelf to enjoy. If you are one of those who do not visit...

Red Bank Branch has two upcoming events concerning our food and where it comes from. On Wednesday September 24 at 6:30pm Marvin Kemper and Joe Schalansky of Seton Harvest will be speaking. Seton Harvest is a CSA, or community supported agriculture project...

Barely a day has gone by since I began working for the library that I haven't found at least one book that looks interesting. Sometimes I just pass by them, other times I write down the title and author for later. Other times, I go ahead and check...

A world-renowned fashion designer starts out to make a "green" line of denim wear, using organic cotton, paying living wages to the growers, cutters, and seamstresses who all have a hand in bringing the product to market. Can it be done? To...

The Book of Kells is a lavishly illustrated manuscript book created as a Alter Book sometime between 800 and 900 AD at a monastery in the town of Kells, in Ireland. It is the most lavishly decorated of a series of gospel manuscripts produced between the...